Case
Studies

We believe that Presumed Liability will have a real and lasting
effect on our justice system. Cycle Law Scotland have provided us
with some case studies that perfectly illustrate why Presumed
Liability is such necessary part of a fairer system.

A summary booklet of these case studies can be downloaded
below

roadsharecasestudies.pdf

Road Share Case Studies

November
2011>

A 13 year
old girl, Hope Fennell, died in November 2011 when she was hit by a
HGV lorry on a busy
suburban high street in Birmingham. Read what
happened here.

January
2012>

Jamie Aarons had been cycling her bike in Glasgow when a taxi
driver opened his door into her path. Read more about her
storyhere

January
2012>

Andrew
McNicoll was a cyclist who was killed in a collision with a lorry
on the Lanark Road, Edinburgh in January 2012. His family had to
wait over two years for the criminal case to be concluded. See more
here.her

April
2013>

Alexander
Gibson, 67 years old and a cyclist for 15 years, was cycling in the
North West of Scotland in April 2013 when he was suddenly struck
from behind by a minibus. Read morehere

September
2015>

Sally
Low was killed whilst cycling in September 2013 near Overton,
Morayshire. She was a single mother and cared for her two teenage
sons both of whom were school age. Read morehere

February
2015>

On
the 12th January 2004, on the A98 between Banff and Fraserburgh, a
13 year old schoolgirl, Lesley
Jackson was seriously injured in a collision with a car. Read
more here

December
2016>

Cyclist, Jennifer Wallace, spent
her 49th birthday in Intensive care after a 78 year-old driver
caused her to fall off her bike. Jennifer sustained ten broken
bones in her neck and spine, fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and a
significant head injury. Read more here